From: waterloo <waterloo2005@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: can you explain the sentence about defvar in elisp?
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 10:00:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <907065090907031900r4c4be7dcpf41a2a152e6bc9f1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <159B2D5E349D4F3CBFB96D315465E313@us.oracle.com>
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thanks
it is in 8.5.1 `defvar' and an asterisk of emacs23.0.95.1.
2009/7/4 Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
>
> BTW, I don't see the text or the example that you cited anywhere in the
> Elisp
> manual - in Emacs 20, 21, 22, or 23. Where did you find this? In the Elisp
> manual, node `Defining Variables', I see `*' described explicitly as
> pertaining
> to command `set-variable'.
>
> If the text you cited is in an Emacs 23 manual somewhere, then please file
> an
> Emacs (doc) bug, using `M-x report-emacs-bug'. Explain that the text you
> cited
> is not clear to you. In particular, "readily settable variable" is unclear.
> What
> is missing (in the text you cited) is an explicit reference to
> _interactive_
> setting using `M-x set-variable'.
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-03 16:33 can you explain the sentence about defvar in elisp? waterloo
2009-07-03 17:52 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-04 2:00 ` waterloo [this message]
2009-07-04 2:55 ` Drew Adams
2009-07-04 3:46 ` waterloo
2009-07-04 5:16 ` Drew Adams
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